Mountain Stories: So What’s Changed in So. Calif. in the Last Century? Everything.
by Paula Panich
Mary Hunter Austin was a real California girl. She was born in Illinois, came to California at twenty, lived for years in New York, and died in New Mexico. But her literary mark on the California landscape is indelible. Her first book, Land of Little Rain (1903) was the first real (and really beautiful) praise […]
Categories: Mountain Stories • Tags: 1914, Early 20th century California, Macmillan Company, Mary Austin; California: Land of the Sun; Sutton Palmer, Owens River Valley, San Jacinto Mountains